The Indianapolis journal., 1887-05-15
CONCERNING WOMEN.
Some Personal Gossip About Number of Fe-
male Celebrities-A Wealthy Widow.


Special 20 the Ind.spaDols Journal
NEW YORK May 14-An occasional guest in
society this spring is Mrs. Sara Fisher Ames
the sculptor, whose bust of Lincoln has post
of honor ut the Capitol at Washington. Mrs.
Ames is fine looking woman still, and in her
dav they called her the most beautiful American
girl ever seen abroad She has expressive
voice and is not seldom called for recitatious.
Ono sees with her often her son-in-law, Mr..
Whistler. nephew Of the artist of that pane.
A timid-looking young woman hesitated at
Broadway crossing the other day Twice, three
times she essayed the passage, but shrank back.
unable to bring herself to face the hurly- -buriy
OF ratting teams alone. good-natured DO
Iicenan TO the rescue and was thanked
with naive gratitude as if he had brought her
safely through the lions den. The service had
been rendered to Miss McClelland the Southern
author, a sketch OF whom is included in the
Recent Movement in Southern Literature in
the last Harper, and who. fresh from secluded
Virginia plantation, had never found herself
unescorted on a city street before.
Dr. Emily Blackwell has the pleasantest OF
homes in the house once make bright by the
Carey sisters, in Twentieth street, New York.
With her lives her partner. DIR. Emily Cushier,
who holds first rank in surgical cases among
women physicians in the city. and three adopted
children. two bright girls and boy. who are by
no means uninp portnDt. members Of the family.
DR. Blackwell. who has been 1T the head OF the
Woman'g Medical College OF the New York In
frmary for eighteen years, is going abroad next
fnonta to spend the summer with her sister DIR.
Elizabeth Blackwell, now of Hastings England,
but the first woman ever regularly graduated as
arphysician in this country. With her goes her
niece Miss Alice Stons Blackwell. of the
Womans Journal.
cooking school She will spend the next year
lecturing. probably in ther South. Miss Parloa
is that rare creature, woman with genuine
love of humor, and her sturdy common sense
and wholesome ways Of looking at things will
be missed when the time arrives for her wonted
session to open in the fall 1t is one of
Miss Parloe's pet grievances that women will
not attend her classes to be taught to make
bread but they insist on fancy dishes, which. in
her estimation, are far less important to learn
The temperance people fall afoul of Miss Parloa
now and then, you know. She does not Danish
wine jelly from her list of dishes. but when the
young men of New Y ork boat club asked per-
mission to hold their annual spread in her rooms,
not long ago, they were somewhat surprised to
find that it must be a cold water banquet If they
did so. as Miss Parloa does not allow wlne-glass
her table.
Almost the only woman who ever occupied the
conductors stand on the stage at Steinway Hall,
without looking decidedly i'll at ease IN that un-
wonted position, is Mrs Lillian 3. Peters. who
has directed the concerts of the Chopin Club with
energy and precision this season.
The Rev. Florence Kolloch, who is one OF the
successful women of the Universalist ministry,
now settled at Englewood, in the suburbs of
Chicago, comes of q notable family of self-sup-
porting women. She has an elder sister who is
a physician, and younger sister who is dem
tst. She is a black-eyed, dark haired whoman.-
tall erect fresh-colored and plump, delightfully."-
vigorous to look upon.
Another of the Universalists women ministers,
the Rev. Annette j. Shaw. can throw a baseball
She got some practice with her
brother students in the theological school.
The Rev Amanda Deyo, who was ordained ar
Ponghkeepsie year ago, or thereabouts, was
farmers wife and for many years a speaker
among the Friends. She is morsel of woman,
with kindly contented face and the smoothest
Of brown hair.
The Rev. Phoebe A Hannaford, one of the
pioneers among the women preachers, has been
vice president OF Sorosls almost since the organ1
zation of the club.
Mrs. Langtry has made thus far her first pro- !
nounced success as an actress on her merits IN
Lady Clancarty" and there is for an
opinion that it is all in her gown Emma Juch |
has spoiled opera before now by trying TO sing |
while fitting about in slippers so high heeed that
she could scarcely stand. Patti was cot in her |
best voice, the critics said, one evening when |
had shrewd suspicion that all that allied her |
was necklace that was painfully tight about |
her throat. Mrs Langtry was cold, frozen, In |
Enemies" but how was it possible for her to'be
9TH herwise when the walking-dress she played in
vas painfully tight? In Lady Clancarty" |
Ihe has been wearing in her hardest scene de-
lghtful cross between tea-gown and robe de
hambre that let's her display little emotion
without threatening to burst out at the seams.
3ernhardt is right to abjure corsets. 1t Is not of
ct alone tearing occasional passion to pic
uresque tatters, with your gown laced so tight
hat you can't lift your hand to your head
The Beecher house has "A forlorn look since
he family left it to summer at Peeks-
ill. Dust on the doorsteps and window
edges, ito LETT signs hanging in three
II four places about it. every window in
he big fourst structure open, unshaded by
urtains. and Offering you glimpses of a couple
f white-jacketed masons furnishing and refittng
or other tenants within. Mrs Beecher was un-
eignedly glad to get out of Brooklyn, for she
ound on returning from Florida. that she had
lmost overestimated her strength in coming
ack to the home that had ceased to be a home at
u. The work of removing Mr.. Beecher's books
or cataloeuing and sale. and of packing the
ousehold effects was pushed on her account as
apidly as possible. Her health in spite of the
train put upon it, has not suffered seriously,
nd she will spend part of her time at Peeks-
i'll, this SIMMER, arranging the material for
De memoir Of Henry Ward Beecher which her
ons with her help, expect to prepare.